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of a chan the | "Did you Withers wavering h tive. His serve that broider the unequivoca Mtr. Sha: 10U8, â€" NOLUL the back C "Can‘t you do something?" he asked despairingly. "They‘ll be after me next and you must know the police are on the wrong track. I didn‘t kill Wainâ€" wright and I don‘t think Smith did." Morrison Sharpe eyed him attentiveâ€" ly. "So far as yourâ€"erâ€"confederate in crime is concerned you can‘t very well spiak.. But I‘m going to ask you a questicn which I should like yvou to novel which came that same morning in token of the solution of a chess proâ€" blem of extreme difficulty. Once reaching this stage, Mr. Sharpe had no further interest in the matters. The £100 would go to his banking acâ€" count and the book into his library. There wers several unread prize awards on these shelves. Before he had finished his simple meal Jerry Withers called, a wan anxiâ€" OllL names nad days previc nobody ha often did, : self with s1 wards were cxciting a: novel whic in token of blem of ext £100 plea will tions questic answet luded Je but a lit Mr. Smi the swag there wa take the One ol as he toy the cas Sharpe story 0o ing ove him to him to t Was nently sa "Dear no sf would was, could J Of c must be the acse breaker way. * COlU Errati Sharpe daylight garlicr houseker about in tion was of freshl He â€" s| Sond tor Fry Reuize Book, sent Irae. Madere ways is use Cocoa and Chocolate, Fry Cadbury Ltd., Montreal THURSDAY. MARCH 4TH. 1937 ; indi ntal 2d h: been Sharpe was merely being ingenâ€" Nothing subtly analytical was at ck of his question. On the conâ€" He was just hoping that in face imple query there would be no of subterfuge. Staring full in ce of the vouns man, Morrison CHAPTER XIV. A WOMAX NX THE CASE had me of those simple but emiâ€" isfying letters which run: Sir,â€"We are pleased to anâ€" at you are th> winner of our word competition. Enclosed 1 cheque, which we trust you t with our hearty congratulaâ€" DP ques he n hese shelves. e had finished his simple Withers called, a wan anxiâ€" who was bearing signs of hoot Caleb Wainwright?" ulled himself up. Without snapped out a crisp negaâ€" uestioner was glad to obâ€" e made no attempt to emâ€" reply. It stood out at an disslaimer. It Y it 1¢ that. Of course the printed in full a few It was rather strange him the news. They ‘ _never bothered himâ€" rdid details. Cashreâ€" sities, but not nearly so sevenâ€"andâ€"sixâ€"penny ie that same morning nd sin ‘e were snags wnhnich red. In this first case witnout doubt, a lawâ€" d be better out of the e he robbed that was 2€ avelopes h> opened reakfast was from eriodical which Mr. tudying when this . in fact, his dallyâ€" mself â€" luxuriously arranged to do? Of a private detective. n the words. He th Jeremy Withâ€" ration. Poor deâ€" e gained nothing ‘, while the slick miles away with hing went wrong dupe at hand to 1ich had caused ana thus forced heard om wh ely it 1€ Morrison was still e awoke dle, his bustling h direcâ€" perfume jledged illty to which "You are getting a bit melodramatic about it, aren‘t you? Nobody has made any accusation. Tut, tut! I ought to censure you for threatening the police. Instead we‘ll go and drink your health across the road. This is surely an ocâ€" casion within the meaning of the act." "An occasion?" "Certainly! Here you are setting up in opposition to the regular C.LD. with all the selfâ€"assurance in the world Mind you, I‘m not going to take you too seriously, but ycou‘re welcome into the fold for one reason." "Please?" "That you‘re not concerned with selfâ€" aggrandisement. To prove my belief in you I am even prepared to lay some of my own cards down or. the table . under certain conditions." "That I reciprocate?" "Sure! Isn‘t that a fair arrangeâ€" ment?" Mr. Sharpe grinned. "That depends." he retorted, "on who deals the cards. For instance, suppose you play first to give me an inkling of what you held. Is it a court card or one of the rags?" "Nothing less than an ace," Maxley said Morrison Sharpe fidgeted with the glasses and utensils on the table. Apâ€" pearances suggested that he was idly rearranging the articles without noticâ€" ing what he was doing. Actually he was playing a nice little game in which Maxley was keeping a move behind all the time. "Check," muttered the little man #o quietly that it was like a click of irriâ€" tation. Maxley took it for something of that kind. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Sharpe," he "You forget it wasn‘t a genuine lethal weapon. As a toy no formalities were called for." . "Quite! Anyway I should have stood by without raising a finger. But try and insinuate he had something to do with the murder and it‘s a different matter." § "Afraid you don‘t quite know what it means, sir," he observed. "You get no special rights in this country to exâ€" pedite your clients‘ affairs at the exâ€" pense of the police departments. In some countries I understand the private man has definite status." "Does this mean that I‘m going to be kept at arm‘s length?" "Not at bit, Mr. Sharpe. Matthews and myself have had occasion to thank you for some valuable tips. Any furâ€" ther help will be gratefully accepted. Naturally, I take it, you are not going into the detective business as a finanâ€" cial proposition." "One never knows," said Mr. Sharpe evasively. "Then be carefual for whom you act. Your first customer is an associate of crimirals, a carrier of firearms and known to have been planning houseâ€" breaking. Sounds a bit dangerous to get mixed up with fellows like that." "Offences against property and against the person are different matâ€" ters, Mr. Maxley. Jeremy Withers was headed for the slippery slope when something intervened. I don‘t think ie‘l1l repeat the mistake. When you fine him for being without a permit for that pistol I‘ll . . ‘"Dear mse!" murmured the little man Across his face a tender smile of beatiâ€" fic satisfaction flitted. "Dear me! It really does seem as if I am being pitchâ€" forked into my rightful profession at last. Whatever the consequences I‘m on your side. One of these days we‘ll discuss the question of fees. For the moment I‘m not sure it isn‘t even illegâ€" ality to talk about such things." In this he was rather astray. Maxley actually gfinned when informed that the little puzzleâ€"master had joined the ranks of the private inquiry agents. "No, no! Don‘t imagine I haven‘t noticed how you‘ve helped with this business. Mathews seemed glad to have your assistance, though the superintenâ€" dent has other notions, I imagine. But you‘re a detective, Mr. Sharpe, although you may not call yourself one. You‘re a born detective and IT‘d rather trust yceu than anyone else I know to handle my interests." "Act for me. Of course, I haven‘t got mutch money, but I could manage reaâ€" sonable fees . .." "Here, wait a minute." the little man interrupted. "In what capacity do you want to engage me? I haven‘t any ztanding, you know. Better get a soliâ€" citor, or throw yourself on the mercy of the police." "Better wait and see what happens," Mr. Sharpe advised. "But I don‘t want to. It‘s dreadful when you expect the blow to fall at any minute. For two nights I haven‘t been able to sleep." "What do you expect me to do, young MR,. sSHARPE‘s NEW PROFESSION In his own mind the school boy, farâ€" mer and his wife, the driver, and now the conductor, could pe eliminated from the case. They could add nothing to the evidence to place John Smith, the one man the police regarded with susâ€" picion. Sharpe had not the least doubt that he had got the truth and that was another important assurance. "No, I finish at the impending storms in Eastbourne and London. Anybody with a murky past might well get the "Too smart. We had to scour around for days to find cut that much. I supâ€" pose you‘re going to tell me the rest as well." "Good! Then suppose he had no business to be in this part of the world so far as his firm was concerned. That would mean that, after the murder, his name would be«in the newspapers and rods would be in pickle at home and at Messrs Sillingway and Mariowe‘s. How‘s that?" Such a challenge was not to be disâ€" regarded. Mr. Sharpe asked for five minutes. Actually he izsegan to unknot the ravel in about twelve seconds. "A woman in the case," he mused. "And a wife right at the other exâ€" treme of the country. Nothing new in that. Must be the obvious solution. Arything against that, superintenâ€" dent?" "What a wonderful organization you must have," he exclaimed placatingly. "Picking up the trail of somebody who has gone right away from his usual haunts savours of the miraculous." Maxley winked. "Our friend did not clear out from his usual haunts, as you put it." "Nol" "No," snapped the officer triumphantâ€" ly. "Play that over on your board and see what you make of it." claimed stiffiy, "that I do not indulge in anything so lacking in exactitude as guessing." Another heartâ€"throb and he would have lost the opportunity of being pres.â€" ent at the interview with the longâ€" wanted Huntley Young. Maxley must be appeased, not annoyed. Mr. Sharpe called for drinks and set himself to play for an invitation to talk to the newâ€" found commercial traveller. Mr. Sharpe scattered the glasses haphazardly about the" table. _ That little problem was settled. His hand almost caressed the tumbler with which he had threatened the flower vase with a deserved checkmate. "How did I know," he repeated dreamily. "Well, to be strictly accurate, you revealed it yvourself." "Don‘t pull my leg, please." "I wouldn‘t dream of it, old man. That‘s why I advised chess. You see that game teaches you to think with your oapponent . . . even ahead of him." "Huh!" growled Maxley, still unconâ€" vincesd. "You‘re just an uncannily good guesser." To his surprise the little man seemed on the verge of flaring into violent anger. This was touching him on a raw spot. "I would have you know," he exâ€" Superintendent . Maxley â€" positively gasped. People really do under the stress of strong emotion. "Hâ€"how did you know that?" he demanded. "What a shame. Chess ought to be compulsory in the polics force. Now tell me, since it*is no longer a secret, where you ran Mr. Huntley Young to earth?" "Possibly you don‘t play chess?" "Never tried it in my life. I‘ve had to work for my living, you know." "What a shame. Chess ought to be compulsory in the polics force. Now Maxley laughed aloud. This was really too funny. Here was the wouldâ€" be detective worrying over some fruitâ€" less.game at the moment when he had nearly heard an important piece of confidential news. "Very interesting, sir," he remarked. "But not very helpâ€" ful in dealing with realâ€"life problems NOT VERY HELPFUL Maxley laughed aloud. E. really too funny. Here was the be detective worrving over som "Afraid I don‘t follow," exclaimed the Superintendent. "Oh, I was just engrossed in a chess problem." Sharpe. "It shoul mate.‘" A tumbleé closer contact with point the lesson. said, "bu sectrets h DAVID McK. ruRDV asisstant to the viceâ€"president of Purchas:s and Stores, Canadian Naâ€" tional Railways, whose appointment as General Purchasing Agent, Canaâ€" dian National System. is announced Not a thing, sit but I nearly went too far. Police ; ha‘ve to be carefully guarded." aid ‘check‘," answered Morrison . "It should have been ‘checkâ€" A tumbler was shifted into contact with a vase of flowers to Ca I" â€"~President R. C. Va O arcgl'l You‘re doing nite. THE PORCUPINE ADYANCE,. TTIMMITNS, ONTARIO "Let us," remarked Mr. Sharpe, "go and have a look round." CHAPTER XV FACTâ€"â€"WITH SOME FALSEHOOD Huntley Young‘s confession was enâ€" tirely sordid. All he had to tell related to his illicit love affair. Down in Eastâ€" bourne lived a wife who trusted him implicitly, imagiring that his work kept him so long away. "‘Turn the blighter growled the offiter. "If you care to leave it to me I zan get what we want without being all that ruthless. You see," he added maâ€" liciously, "I‘ve been able to do someâ€" thing outside your powers." Maxley glared suspiciously. ‘"Wihat‘s that?" "Psychoâ€"analyse the witness immeâ€" diately after the crimeâ€"before you knew, at police headquarters, one had ‘seen committed." "Pah!" spcrted the Superintendent. Leadinz the way into his bedrocm he Icoked as if he would vent his displeasâ€" ure on the hapless invalid. "Mr. Sharpe wants to ask you a few more questions," he remarked. Huntley Young looked up with a frown. "Am I chbligcd to answer them?" he asked. "*No," the Superinterdent admitted. "At present you can pleass yourself either way. I‘m not even giving the custcmary warning about anything you say may be used in evidence." "That is to say we are irdulging in a little friendly chat?" Mcrrison Sharp» stoopned over the With the ‘bus mystery a general local topic it was not to be wondered at that she eventually decided to pass her susâ€" picions on to the police. And Huntley Young, it appeared, took fright at once, with the result that he was at that moment, lying in a serious condition. truth?" The little man shook his head impaâ€" tiently: "That‘s going too far. But I certainly believe that there is a fair amount of falsehnocd mixed up with the facts. Personally, I don‘t think they amount to much in the lenz run, only is seems necessary in a case like this to leave nothing to chance." "@uite friendly on my part," he addâ€" ed. "Surely you‘re as anxious to clear up this murder mystery as any of us?" "Of course I am." "Then avoid letting your case be grawn over the scene like a red herâ€" ring." This woman had had her suspicions before. The commercial traveller had always pretended that he was a married man called consistently away from Netherton on business. But neighbours do not take such things for granted. The informer had heard Yotung‘s voice through the party wall. What puzzled her was that she never saw him, although at nights she had an impression he went outâ€"probably for exercise. "Seems straightforward enougzh to me," Maxley cbserved, when they withâ€" drew from the sick chamber to talk things over. "Quite satisfied, ch?" "Aren‘t you?" he parried. "The story hangs together. Besides, I‘ve been able to do something outside your powers." ‘"Meanirz take a check! Oh, you‘re welzcome to that advantage. What a pitv you misuse it so frequently." "Mr. Sharpe!" "Now don‘t get on your hind legs, Superintendent." "You think we Eaven‘t had the "Then you do indulge iA guesswork after all!" ‘"Nothing of the kind. That was an exact piece of deductive reasoning. But please let us make a move,. Where is your latest victim?" "Number seventyâ€"three Upper Lorâ€" riston Road." "What?" It was Mr. Sharpe‘s turn to laugh, for his chaffing remark about Huntley Young‘s refuge being next door to the police station had been almost accurate. Although not exactly on the doorstep the house was only round the corner. Perhaps it was the safest place in which to have sought concealment. MR. YOUNG GIVEN AWAY Apparently it was a neighbour who had given Young away. RBigamy had notring to do with it. Young was too cunning for that, or tco fearful of the possible consequences. Whenever he could manage to slip away to Netherton he reglsected his work, and for years his employers had no idea anything of the kind was going on. As for Mrs. Young, the mere notion that her husband was arything else but a paragon of virtue had been encugh to> arouse smiles of conszticus superiority. On the day of the murder he had been cn his way to his "second home." Tragedy intervened, the inquest thrust him into the limelisgsht and he decided to lie low. Then the police became inâ€" quisitive, and ‘he went right off the rails. Morrison Sharpe looked modestly at the tips of his shoes. ‘"My dear superâ€" intendent," he said, "you gave me all that information yourself. That wickâ€" ed grin and the hesitation before sugâ€" gesting going to the hospital revealed your determination to take one rise out of me." Well, what do you want me to say inside out General Motors of Canada Increase Car Shipments General Mstors of Canada, Limited, closed the end of February in a gratifyâ€" ing position as far as car shipments are concerned, it was learned this week from C. E. McTavish, general sales manager. Noetwithstanding the slackenâ€" "Sorry, Mr. Your;: is my moilto. You‘ll of being suspected <( direct result of my ~LfG me Sseel â€" J know. This bewil« "Then let me r My own is good won‘t bether with kook. Work batkw ing a seat in the fo‘lowed aboard b ple. Remember t vourself." all over 1 me think day . Don fully the "You‘re playing for time," exclaimed Mr. Sharpe sternly. "What‘s a date. IT‘m referring to the night before the murâ€" a0tebook, bi f the sort. i1 over it a; inything cu E L ECTRIC C Meat is the foundation of a man‘s meals. And does he like his meats well cooked! What a joy to have a modern range, one that unfailingly produces roasts that rétain their flavors and juices. That are tender and appetizing. That are good to chew on and good to look at. Meats that are inexpensive to prepare because they don‘t dry out. That‘s modern cooking â€" electric cooking â€"quick, sure, economical. A few dollars a month will install a new electric range in YOUR home, Liberal allowance for your old stove,. CANADA NORTHERN POWER CORPORATION, LIMITED in other words . .â€". and MORE FOOD YVALUE with LESS SHRINKAGE T‘€ WrUECL TO Ds glad to ge the murder ago, and . h your memon igh. Oh, no, we ‘ulting the noteâ€" rom your takâ€" You had been umber of peoâ€" would be the Nn t anything ou like to go ia@ave been W SU NORTHERN QUEBEC POWER COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN QNTARIO POWER COMPANY LIMITED mng 1 Mt made kit Â¥OT Oll in yfi 5 o ols WO i%" o( Perth Courier: Certain States and the Unifed Clales. ‘countries vie with cach other in making The case of Cheyrolet, Mr. McTavish divorce proceedings a source of revenue. bointed out, is a good example. Shipâ€" That a sacrament is turned into a comâ€" ments of new passenger models from mercial commodity for gain must apâ€" the beginninz of the model year up pear loathing to even a pagan. varicus car lines 1 dian ‘deliveries are relatively the case The demand is go showing a greate crease over the p the United States was whe 1ne slUA veries, Mr. e new mode ntil the end 1l it possib n the Controlling and Operating 1€ Premiums pavable vearlhy pro 11, Mr. McT EOW COST SICKNESS AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE 1JY bly Xorth 11 January, enforced (â€"Ameritcan plants material, the shipâ€" the beginning of in the fall of 1936 bruary are much ts during the same ‘ating that Canaâ€" ich better than is the United States. in Canada, scales ‘rcentage of inâ€" cus. year than in 11 1 (Established 1912) INSURAXCE OF EVERY KIXND 11 a factory had ed and maâ€" i to the limit iat operation e long perioa ; o were closed. Llid, 19211 vyearly, halfâ€"vearlv quarterly or monthly. to deâ€" is very . on the Timmins, Ont watching or "‘ fork poking” oven peeping" ROASTS that STAY Tender and Juicy until the end of February show an inâ€" crease of 25 per cent. cver the same period a year ago. In the case of Cheyâ€" rolet commercial cars, there was no shortage of material in January, with the result that shipments in the period under review are 70 per cont. greater than a vear ag>. oo k inc Phone 104